Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
